Dozens of people are unaccounted for and feared dead after gas sparked an explosion at a mine in a separatist-controlled part of eastern Ukraine. There has been conflicting information about the number of victims. …read more Source: Deutsche...

Close to 60% of the Russian people are against military deployment of Russian forces in Donbass even if tensions escalate. Merely 25% of people would support military action with Russian participation, while 16% found the question difficult to respond to. The data is based on a sociological survey of public opinion, as reported by the Bulgarian...

Two Tu-95 bombers flew into Irish airspace with transponders turned off before RAF saw them off One-Minute Read Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 10:51am Two Russian bombers flying in Irish-controlled airspace forced a commercial plane carrying hundreds of people to divert in mid-air and delayed another plane’s take-off from Dublin airport....

The 66th edition of the traditional Strandja International Boxing Tournament for amateurs this year marked a great interest, also being a checkpoint before the start of the Baku 2015 European Games in June. The tournament is the oldest one in Europe and has been taking place since 1950. The first international presence at the event was marked in...

EU leaders and US President Barack Obama expressed readiness on Tuesday to extend the sanctions against Russia in case the Minsk ceasefire is further violated. This happened at a video conference between Obama and the leaders of Germany, France, UK, Italy and European Council President Donald Tusk, EurActiv reports. The other participants in the...

The National Bank of Ukraine on Wednesday, March 3, put in force a sharp increase in interest rates – from 19.5% to 30% – aimed at reducing inflation and strengthening the value of the national currency. …read more Source: Baltic News...